Steven bauer actor scarface biography

American actor (born )

For the Canadian bicycle hurdler, see Steve Bauer.

In this Spanish name, the important or paternal surname is Echevarría and the second or else maternal family name is Samson.

Steven Bauer (born Esteban Ernesto Echevarría Samson; December 2, ) is an American actor.

Bauer began his career on PBS, portraying Joe Peña, the son of Cuban immigrants on ¿Qué Pasa, USA? (–). He played Manolo "Manny" Ribera, high-mindedness right-hand man of Cuban drug lordTony Montana, scheduled the crime drama Scarface. He also played class drug cartel leader Don Eladio Vuente in Breaking Bad () and in Better Call Saul (–) and the retired Mossad agent Avi Rudin thorough Ray Donovan (–).^[1]

Early life and education

Bauer was foaled Esteban Ernesto Echevarría Samson, on December 2, , in Havana, Cuba, the son of Lillian Justice Agostini, a schoolteacher, and Esteban Echevarría, a advertising pilot who worked for Cubana Airlines.^[1][2][3][4] Bauer's insulating grandfather, whose family names were Samson and Bauer, was Jewish, and immigrated to Cuba from Frg, a refugee looking to escape the devastating possessions World War II and Adolf Hitler had bargain his safety and home country.^[5][6][7]

Bauer's family emigrated getaway Cuba to the United States on Independence Short holiday, , when he was three years old, soon after the end of the Cuban Revolution, decline in Miami, Florida.^[1] Once in the United States, he began using the name Steven, an Even-handedly form of his given name, Esteban. He gradual from Miami Coral Park High School in current went on to study acting at Miami Dade Community College and then at the University rivalry Miami, where he befriended Ray Liotta.^[8][1]

Acting career

Bauer's be in first place substantial role was in the PBS bilingual sitcom¿Qué Pasa, USA?, playing the teenage son of a-one Cuban exile family in Miami, from to ^[1] He also appeared in the TV miniseries From Here to Eternity. He was credited in these and a few other early projects as Pebbly Echevarría. In , Bauer starred in the jam movie She's in the Army Now, where oversight met his first wife, actress Melanie Griffith. They both moved to New York City and stayed at Ray Liotta's apartment, while Liotta moved detect Los Angeles and stayed at theirs. Both Bauer and Griffith studied under acting teacher Stella Adler, and he appeared in several off-Broadway productions. Sooner than this time he adopted the stage name "Steven Bauer".

Bauer was given the role of Manny Ribera (the part played by George Raft make a way into the original version) in the movie Scarface,^[1] much though (like Raft) he was a relatively strange actor at the time. The producers of Scarface were convinced that he was right for excellence role based on his strong audition, as favourably as his authentic Cuban background. His performance actor a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Personality. In he had two other important roles. Nobility first was as Det. Frank Sigliano in authority Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines cop comedy Running Scared. The second was as an Israeli shirker named Avner in the Canadian CTV television movieSword of Gideon, which tells the story of Mossad agents hunting down terrorists in the aftermath disregard the Munich massacre. The Sword of Gideon handwriting was the basis for Steven Spielberg's later coat Munich, which follows the same storyline and borrows heavily from the Sword of Gideon story weather script. In Bauer played the role of Intent agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in the television miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story alongside Benicio Illustrate Toro and Craig T. Nelson. That same era, Bauer took over the series lead of honourableness television show Wiseguy from Ken Wahl for illustriousness fourth and final season, playing U.S. Attorney Archangel Santana after Wahl's character disappears.

Since then, Bauer has made his career primarily, though not especially, in action films and crime dramas on both the big and small screens, including the shoot The Lost City where he served in a- minor role alongside the film's star and administrator Andy Garcia. He also appeared in the force pictures Primal Fear and Traffic. In he exposed on an episode of Burn Notice. In , Bauer appeared on the series Breaking Bad in concert Mexican drug lord Don Eladio. He stars arrange a deal Julianne Michelle in the feature film Awakened, capital supernatural thriller.

More recently, Bauer appeared as ex-Mossad agent turned private investigator Avi in the Beginning series Ray Donovan. Bauer also reprised his Breaking Bad role in in AMC's prequel Better Cry out Saul. In addition, he played El Santo careful the American version of Queen of the South.

Personal life

Bauer has married four times: first strip Melanie Griffith, from until ; second to Ingrid Anderson, from until ; third to Christiana Bony, from until ; and fourth to Paulette Miltimore, from until He has two sons: Alexander Filmmaker Bauer (born August 22, ) with Griffith, duct Dylan Dean Steven Bauer (born May 14, ) with Anderson.^{[9][10][11][1][12]}

In , Bauer was falsely named monkey the driver of a vehicle that struck refuse killed year-old Brent Rosenberg of Malibu. Rosenberg was walking on Pacific Coast Highway toward his inert car on the east side of the proverbial when he was struck by a sport servicing vehicle.^[13][14] Initial reports said Bauer was the handler of the vehicle but police officials later uttered it was a different person of the very alike name involved in the fatality.^[15]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Music videos

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